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Letters Patent No. 74,742, dated February 25, 1868.

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Be it known that I, SETH W. BAKR, of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhodeglsland, have invented a new'and improved Manufacture of Blankets for Clothing Horses, and for other 'purposes;. and

n[ do hereby declare that the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making-part of the saine, in which-- Figure 1 represents my improved blanket upon a horse, showing, by a section at A A, the thickness and porosity of the fabric. i

FigurefZ is a section of the fabric in the direction` of the-length ofthe warp, the lines a a being the Warps, and the dots the divided filling-threads. V

Figure 3 is a cross-section'of the fabric, in which'the lines indicate the overlaying shoots of filling-threads, and the dots the d iivided warps. Y

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My said invention consistsot a blanket, manufactured or made up in the ordinary way, of a thick 4cellular* spongy fabric, composed of a number of sets of warps-interwoven with a number of overlaying shoots of filling-V threads of cotton or other suitable material, without falling or nap, to provide for the free evaporation of animal perspiration, aswell Vasto afford a requisite -warmth of clothing.

My improved blanket is designed chiefly as an article ot clothing for horses, for which purpose it is esseni tial, on accountlof the excessive perspiration of thc, anixnnl, that the blanket should be-capable of rapidly absorbing and evaporating the perspiration, as well as to keep the animal warm after exercising, and it is manifest that the vordinary woollcn blanket, whichis felled and napped to render it close and woolly, is not capable of absorbing and cvaporating the perspiration a's freely as a fabric composed of a thick net-Work of distinct cotton threads Woven loosel ','and with a s on e-like texture; on the contrar it is abundantll roved P g y: y P b,

by practice, that the woollenblanket becomes wet and fulh and confines the v'perspiration in the animals coat, so that the body cools without drying, and the animal, in consequence, takes cold and becomes diseased, whereas, if the blanket would rapidly absorb the perspiration like-a sponge, and allow it to evaporate freely therefrom, the heat of the animals body would soon dry its hairy coat, and there would be noliability ofitaking cold. It has,` in fact,v been the practice heretofore to use a large sponge to absorb 'the perspiration 4from the animals 'coat before applying'the woollenblanket', and I have, byk the use of thispecliar fabric, succeeded in combining the absorbent qualities of the sponge with the warmth and'protection o f alblanket'.l

The material which prefer to use in the manufacture of Athe fabric of my improved blanket is cotton, on account of its superior absorbent properties and its cheapness, andthe facility with which it can be worked and the manufacture adapted to well-known machinery now in use for working this fibre. I, however, do not confine myself to tho use of cotton, but dcsiguto employ ilax'or tow 'en -father suitable bre.

'Yarns or threads of such fibre being produced in due form by the ordinary processes of spinning and twisting of the numbers, say, of five and a half single ply for- 'th-e iilling,.and from twenty to twenty-two three ply for the warps. I beam orwind the yarns or threads upon the yarn-beam in sets of two, three, four, five, or morcldistinct warps, and by means of a Greenhalgh or Oromptouloom, (so called,) or other suitable'weavingmachinery, furnished with the requisite mountings of harnesses to operate a number of sets of Warps, I interw'eave loosely in plain cloth the 'several setsA of warps, by means of continuous shoots of the fillingthread, the `loose intertwin-ing of whichforms interstitial cells or pores, from which the fabric derives its properties of warmth, absorption, and` evaporation, as above specified, and shown in fig-2.

In manufacturing this fabric for blankets, I propose to weave a variety of colors in checks, plaide, stripes,

and other fanciful and ornamental designs,- as well as plain white or mottled grounds, withheadings of colored stripes, or otherwise, woven,vor, if desired, they may be printed in fanciful designs and figures, as may be most desirable to the trade, v v

A blanket may be made of this fabric in the usual form, by cutting the fabric to suit the figure o f the horse, or, if the blanket bewoven square, or`in the usual'form in which blankets are woven, and confined by means of the surcingle to the horses body, owing to the spongy and yielding nature of the fabric, it will adapt itself` to the sha-pe of tllehorse, andso absorb the moisture from all parts of its' eoat'iwliich it covers.

A blanket of this fabric can be easily washed'and dried. It is more durable than the ordinary woollen one,

and can be afforded at about one-half. the cost. l

I donot claim the woven fabric herein described, the same having been previously patented by John Gujer,

' May '18, 1858,-used for various other useful purposes.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is` 4 A horse-blanket, manufactured or made up of the fabric herein described, as a new article of manufacture.

.S. W. BAKER. Witnesses:

ISAAC A. BROWNELL, WILLIAM BROWNELL. 

